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Local Matters ?.Just bought big lut Khuji Ciikai*. See us before you buy. Lancaster Mercantile Co. ? Preaching ut Unity at 2:3t p. m. Sabbath instead of 11 a, in. us usual. Every body invited. ?Our Poet cigars are neatly put up in suitable boxes for Xiuas presents. Fonderburk Pha; inacy. ?The Pleasant Valley members of the J. O. U. A. M. lodgt are rehearsing for an entertainment to be given duting the holi days. ?Go to Lancaster Mercantile Co. and buy goods cheap. They have cut prices to reduce stock. ?The students oil attending the various educational institutions in the Stato are all expected home today to spend the holidays. ?Don11 forget that the storee at Lancaster will be closed Christmas day and the day following. Any purchases you havo to make, make them beforehand. ?AU persons indebted to me must settle by Jan'y. 1st. J. E. Rutledge, Dentist. ?Married, on Tuesday night, Dec 16, 1902, by Magistrate King of Cedar Creek, Mr. Anderson Caskoy and Miss Marj Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth 'Taylor. ?Xmas is coming just arounci the corner and your friends wil appreciate a nice serviceable gift. R. Miles' is the place to get il cheap. Read his adv. ?You can now get all the "pound calico" you want at Williams Hughes Co. ?Rev. W. H. Hodges, tht next pastor of the Melbodisi church, will arrive here this even ing and wili preach tomorrow both morning and evening. ? Have you paid your subscrip tion to The Ledger? If not, wh} not? Don't you know the editoi needs it? You will make bin happy by paying it at onco anc ff-el hannv vrtiirnolf #r?hotrinn ?,-r, J * . discharged an honest obligation, ?The best Perfumes to b< found are at Funderburk's Pbnr? macy. ?Rev. J. M. White will pieaet at Gills Creek A. U P. churcl next Sabbath at 11 a. m. All tin members of said congregation an c5 O adherents cordially invited to at tend Business meeting aftci preaching. ?Mr. J. M. Willeford an? family have moved from For Mill to Lancaster, where Mr Willeford has the position o head machinist in the big nev mill.?Fort Mill Times. ?Tbo famous White Knigh cigars are to be found at Funder burk's Pharmacy ? We aro pleased to welcouu back to Lancaster our old friein Mr. C. F. Tillman. Ho move< with his family into the telephone building this week and will opei a boarding bouse. The past yea he has been bring at Rock1 Mount, S. C. ?Tbecase of Jennie C. Hughe against School District No. 37 which was appeuled from thi county, was argued in the Stat Supreme Court last Wednesday John T. Green for appellant; Er nest Moore in reply for respon dent. ?Mrs. J. M. Anthony and ohil dren, of Westville, visited Mrs J. F. Addison this week. Mie Nannie Fletcher, also of Westville cann up with them and will rc main with Mrs. Addison throng the holidays. ?$1.50 Fui Collarettes rcdui ed to 50 cents; $2.50 Jackets rc duced to $1 50; $5.00 Jacket reduced to $3.98 Luncuster Mercantile Co. a Cliribitn.vi present? That is what most you j ladies ai\? a^kr ing themselves now. Don't (lis* f uppoint her. What will you give? Come and scj our stock, and it will help you decide that question. 11. C. HOUGH, Coiner opposite Lancaster Mercantile Co'8 Store. . j ?Our Mr. .J. M. Hood is al wuys in rue mar K el to purchase mules and cuttle. Ai d don't you ' forget it. Laocuster Mercantile Ce>. ?11. C. Hough's stole and the [ Fonderburk Pharmacy, on the * c irner, are crowded with good ' things suitable for gifts on all occasions. ' ?Mr. J. H. W. Stevens, of * Cheraw, was in the city yesterday. ?Mrs. It. N. Vanlandingham of Hartsville, is visiting relatives here. ' ?Mr .1 L Tillman, Sr., of Van Wyck, is here to spend the holidays with his children. 1 ?Miss Grace Brasington, of * Camden is the guest of Mrs. L. M. Clyburn, en route to Trudesville to spend the holiday with her uncle, Mr. Butler Funderburk, and Family. ' ?Married, on Sunday last, i Mr. John Ferrell son of Mr. W. J. Ferrell, und Miss Ola Barker, t daughter of Mr. Richard Barker, all of this county. ?Baxtor Robertson, son of 5 Mr. W. D. Robinson, vho stays in the Bennett grocery, accidentally fell in the stoie last Wednos- j , day and broke one of the bones of ^ his right arm about the wrist. ?The County treasurer received a check yesterday from the ' Comptroller General for $724.81, being Lancaster County's share; - in the distribution of the special t school fund. r ?Ed Sanders,.cel., was seut j to the chain gang by Mayor Wyj lie yesterday for 30 nays for stealing a packago irotu the buggy of * Mr Mike Sowell, whose horse Ed. - was holding while the latter was > attending to some business in a store. ? Dr. W. 11. Wakefield, of Charlotte, N. C., will be in Lancaster at tho Cunningham Hotel, 1 on Wednesday, December 24th, * for one day only, llis practice 1 is limited to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. On this day the . doctor's fee will be reduced onehalf. ?Since it has boon made known that tho Governor and Comptroll ler General have announced that . they positively will not extend f the time for paying taxes this v your there is a pretty good run on tho treasurer's office. The treasurer has been kept busy the t last few days. Only about ten - days remain in which to pay with out the penalty. , ?Mr. Mack Tillman, of Van j Wyck, was in town Thursday and informed us of the hold up of a ' man near the water tank at Osceo ola the night before by two negroes a with pistols who relieved him of r $7.50 in cash. The man was well dressed and claimed to be from Virginia. He had struck camp and had built a fire to spend the s night there when the hold up and } robbery occurred. s ?The ladies bazaar for the Cou o federate monument fund, which . was expected to run all this week, met with such success that it sold out Its entire stock of fancy work, etc., by Wednesday night and closed up shop. The nice little I- sum of $177.00, was realized in (# tho two days and nights it was open. Hurrah for the ladies ! j | ?Mr. E. S. Honnett, who was thrown from his buggy by his mulo running ofT about two weoks 1 ago and badly hurt, has boon here ' under the treatment of Dr. McDow all this week. Ho (suffered j, intensely?appendicitis having ro^ suited Ir ni the \ehiclo passing oxer and i.raising the lower portion of ids body. Ho was able to bo taken homo yosterday. | Items From Kershaw /?ra. ?Drukeford, colored, Or !.>i 1 \ iv "i. U H < ! hi*. Iv ?r ln-l we- k. It w v i giied i>2;? pounds. ? Mr. S. I<\ llougli accidcntully shot liimsdf through Iho hand Monday of last week fooling with a piotol. ?In an altercation last Satut' .. * i ~ t n /* uigin, mr, iv. 15. tjroxiou shot Pall I Clinton, colored, indicting a flesh wouud iu the log. ?Mr. Hunter H. Morton, son of our esteemed friend, Mr. W. S. Morton, was married the 10th inst. to Miss Lula Bowers, daugh ter ot Mr. Geo. A. Bowers. They were married by llev. J. C. Chundler at the Heath Spring parsonage. Wo extend our congratulations and wish them much unalloyed happiness. ?The Kershaw masons will have a gala day Friday Dec. 20th. They will have their installation ceremouies public in one of the churches at 3 p. m., to be follow ed by the conferment of side degrees in the afternoon at tbo lodge room, and a banquet at the hull in Ashe's brick building at G p. m Rrnm flini'o fUoo n*?ll 1 Ml. A * v/ui viiviv i UVJ Will UUjUUI U to their lodge room again and will confer the side degrees on the wives and daughters of Mason?. ? Letters advertised remaining uncalled for at the Lancaster postoffice for the week ending Dec. 20, 1902, are as follows: Miss Julia Smith, Miss Ida White, Miss llc? becca Johnson, Will Shaw, Ed Sane, It. L Steal nor, O. H. Watson, Thomas lteeves, L. T. Mann, W. A. Paysen, W. G. Hayes, Belle Nance, p. m. ?The State of ypstorday announces that John Dougherty, the missing stone cutter irom Chestor, Pa., mi account of whose mysterious disappearance will be found in this issue, died in the Richland county alms house August 31st. -Mil >? Tues SEI The Ladic dially invited NERY GOOI Tuesday a Our talein weeks in New we are sure he 11 X UCSUtt)' Will conducted a in Repeating dies of a warn He/ith I I STATE NEWS. | I I ? n?e Sis-t he-.r.l <?f health will p ask tin Ic^i 1 .'us* pus-, u St to <1 compulsory vaccination law at tho n coming session. d ? Arlliiir Klutz and Bertha Sapp, of Salisbury, N. C., who |t wore recently married at Uoek 0 : liill, are both in jail at Salisbury tl! j ?tho former charged with biga- ri my, and the hitter for fornication and adultery. Ci ? AJ r. Tom L. Johnson is to bo a candidate for mayor in tho op- I ? I' preaching city election at Rock q Hill. ' ?The town council of Cheraw has placed the contract for electric lights. ^ ?The Olympia mill company y of Columbia has ordered 1,200 turkeys and will present the head . ji of each family of operatives at the mill with one for Xmas. ?Chief Justice Mclver is re- ^ portod critically ill at his home < in Cheraw and it is feared may not live until the heginiog of the O D now year. ?The Sheriff of Richland county has recently purchased three ve ry tine well trained bloodhounds. ?$2,200. was subscribed to * 1 the 2?Mh century fund for education and home missions by the A. R. 1*. congregation at Chester O D last Sunday. ?Gcurgo Williams, col., died of smallpox at Fort Mill Friday night last. Telegraphic News Items Boiled ] Down. Negroes are leaving South Bend, lnd., because of feeling agaiiist them by the white people. Sixty-three persons were frozen to death in Hungary during the last three days. Rov. Charles M. Beck with, D. D., was yesterday consecrated as XlNERY sday and I MEMBER ;s of Lancaster, ai to attend our F )S on md Tuesday Nig ted Milliner, Mis' York City selec ;r display of new be quite the tinesl lillinery business. ; the invitation ai ii welcome, we ar< Mo Banking & Episcopal l?i>h?>p of Alabama. Among ih" c*outi ntuti in of mslira-1?" - ' the '-i a"> I'hnrsay weie V. M Kiha. " Behottsville: C. J. Shannon, Camen. Tlio interstate comhierce comlission recommends amendment f the interstate commerce law so 3 to prevent the combination of nil roads. A step was taken Thursday in jngress looking to the enforcoicnt of t!ie anti trust law. It is roposed to appropriate $500,00 for that purpose. The leading citizens of Veneuela advise President Castro to ield to superior force. Full owcr has been given to United dates Minister Bo wen to settle he differences with the least prendice possible to Venezuela. A j .rship of Admiral Dewey's tleet as been sent to Minister Bo wen. zy*?w^fTrarwgBfHftjwai FOR Tf ?r HOL In Selecting your URESENTi; BEST THINGS in Neckwear. Handkerchiefs. Gloves. Fane] lars and Cuffs. Umbrellasto |:k'"s""" E^T* You are invited to call ai R.MI The Barg; OPENIN 'uesday N 30TH, 1 tid adjacent cou ALL OPENIN lit, Next, Sept, ting our Mill ill* and Fashional t of any season id again .assurii ^9 st Respectfully. : MERCAN ei.ov x~ xv rv ADPIUI Kings as Christmas liitts. Kings are still I the must pop?. Krn^Su W 1 u of GIFTS. , . g> % \ ISatniuiiv sj, for tlioy cud be * i worn always and where all can ' *$*> sco tlioni. I hnvo just openbd a- ^ lurge assortmont of the newest * ideas in RINGS. Prices to suit " * * any purse. II. C. Hough, corner opposite Lancaster Mercantile Co. Store. Dissolution Notice The Firm of Funderburk Ce. will on Jan. 1, 1D03, hy mutual consent of the parties composing said firm-- A. L. Funderburk and 15. l. 1< undoi burk?bo dissolved. All parties indebted to us by Note or Account will please come forward and settle AT ONCE, or make satisfactory arrangements. This notieo is intended for all who owe us. Respectfully Yours, Funderburk Co. Dec 12, 1002.?3w. IE IDAYSI > remember that wo carry the Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen { Half Hose, Dress Shirts, Col3 most fastidious \ip ad see us. t L JtU b, ain Giver. g;ight ?4 902. uties are eorG of MILLI<tn IAAA , OU, I9U?. spent several 3ry stock and i>le Hats next sincefvve have lg all.) the La-^ TILE CO.